Hello, readers. Cor Bosman and I have been working for the past couple of days to upgrade the software behind Wetpixel.com to current versions. We are pleased to announce that the upgrade went smoothly!

Browse around to find out what has changed. If you notice anything strange, please SHIFT-reload the page and if that doesn't work, post here to report problems. Be sure to include your operating system and browser (with version and add-ons list).

Here is a list of some of the things we've added. We'll be updating this post periodically.

Lite skin for Team Wetpixel members. You can turn it on at the bottom of the forum pages.

lots of new emoticons

Forum RSS has changed, check the RSS icon on the bottom of the forum pages.

You can upload larger avatars. Max size is 158x80.

Turn on a country flag that's visible under your location field. Edit your country in your profile.

If you have added your position on the Member Map your location field in the topic view becomes clickable

Here is a photo of Cor and me coding away (taken by Julie, who is currently gardening). It took us two days on the test server to migrate the old custom code into new plugin code (so the front page and forums can work together when you login). Everything seems to have gone smoothly, but please let us know if you see anything strange!

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Posted 26 July 2008 - 04:52 AM

Amazing work guys, the only things I see so far is the Article dropdown isn't quite right (can't get to features, etc.) and the member map isn't working. Cheers
Running IE 7.0.5730.11 on a Windows XP machine

A minor problem I see is that the icon on the tab is the IP board icon instead of WP.
Its both in the IE / FF tabs and on the address line
Its happens in the forum pages, not in the mail WP page of course.

Drew -- we just did some tests. In FF3, FF2, Safari, and IE, the dropdown works, and you get:

If you are NOT logged in, you only get 2 options: view member profile and view member blog.

Was logged in and it was not working (really and I have not yet been drinking much yet, still early in the AM ) It is working now. FWIW I think it was maybe cache related on my side, quit both browsers and re-opened.

Sorry for the double post - put this in the front-page comments but belongs here for feedback.

Is the empty white band at the top of each page, like an unused frame, intentional? If not, pointing it out. If so, it looks a bit empty and either can be filled with a graphic or done away with entirely. Granted I'm usually scrolled down a page most of the time.

Using Firefox 3.01, did perform a Ctrl-F5 reload to be sure it wasn't cache corruption at my end.

Sorry for the double post - put this in the front-page comments but belongs here for feedback.

Is the empty white band at the top of each page, like an unused frame, intentional? If not, pointing it out. If so, it looks a bit empty and either can be filled with a graphic or done away with entirely. Granted I'm usually scrolled down a page most of the time.

Using Firefox 3.01, did perform a Ctrl-F5 reload to be sure it wasn't cache corruption at my end.